child quotes

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”

— Honore de Balzac

“What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?”

— Honore de Balzac

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.”

— Honore de Balzac

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

— Aldous Huxley

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. ”

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A man growing old becomes a child again.”

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”

“To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.”

“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

— Victor Hugo

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

— Victor Hugo

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

— Victor Hugo

“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”

— Victor Hugo

“Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! ”

— Victor Hugo

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”

— Victor Hugo

“No one can keep a secret better than a child.”

— Victor Hugo

“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”

— Victor Hugo

“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”

— Victor Hugo

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ”

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.”

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